It's been over two years since Conor McGregor first claimed he would willingly fight the man known as 'Money'.

“If you’re asking would I like to fight Floyd Mayweather, I mean, who would not like to dance around the ring for $180m?” he told Conan O'Brien in July 2015. “I would certainly box him if the opportunity arose. Most certainly.”

Finally, the wait is over.

In the 25 months since, the two have been trading insults, travelling across the globe to heckle, berate, lambast and trash talk.

At times there's been humour. Mostly there's been disgust, abuse, naming and shaming from both sides, all with an increasing tension bubbling along throughout.

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“He looks good for a seven-figure fighter. He looks good for an eight-figure fighter. But I’m a nine-figure fighter.”

“Everyone knows I’ve never backed down from anybody. You line them up, and I knock them down like bowling pins. On August 26, I’m knocking Conor out.”

“We know Mr Tap-out likes to quit. And you will wear that white flag. You can choose which way you want to go, and I’m guaranteeing you this: You’re going out on your face, or you going out on your back. Now which way you wanna go?”

“I don’t give a f*** if it’s a ring, I don’t give a f*** if it’s an octagon. Put me in there and I’m gonna kick a**.”

Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor in Ontario (Image: Getty)

“We knew I was the A side, that’s why this b***h had to come to the boxing ring.”

“Conor feels it’s not going to go past four rounds and I don’t think it’s going the distance. We’re both confident in our skills and we’ll see who gets it done.”

“Never compare Conor McGregor to me, that’s total disrespect. I’m an elephant and elephants don’t beef with ants. An elephant is so large he don’t even see ants.”

“Floyd will be unconscious inside of four rounds. The power and ferociousness that I have, he’s never experienced it before. I don’t fear him.”

“One shot is all it takes. Check the facts, I bounce heads off the canvas.”

“He tip-tap-toes to a decision. He’s never fought a day in his life, he’s a runner.”

The duo at Wembley (Image: PA Wire)

“He’s in a f****** tracksuit. He can’t even afford a suit anymore. The Rolls is a 2012 outside. He is f*****, there’s no other way about it.”

“It’s a limited set of rules that makes this half a fight – a quarter of a fight. This isn’t a true fight. If this was a true fight, it wouldn’t even take one round.”

“He’s got greedy. He could have been 49-0, rode off into the sunset. Trust me, he got greedy here. That was a big mistake.”

Can McGregor back it up (Image: Action Images via Reuters)

“If I was to label him after any animal, it would be the rat. He is a f****** rat and a weasel because that’s what a rat and a weasel do — they try to manipulate words and create something that’s not there.”

“I do what I do. I am going to sleep this man inside of four rounds. The same way I sleep them every other time.”